SOROPTIMIST INTERNATIONAL FOUNDATION

Registered charity 1194895 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as SI FOUNDATION

Soroptimist International Foundation is a global organisation collecting appeal donations from 5 member Federations and the public. The Foundation makes grants to providers that educate, empower and enable women and girls. Projects and programmes are funded in countries where need has been identified to improve the lives of women and girls.

Objects

UPON TRUST TO APPLY THE INCOME FROM THE TRUST FUND AND SUBJECT TO THE PROVISIONS OF CLAUSE 3.2 HEREOF ANY PART OR PARTS OF THE CAPITAL OF THE TRUST FUND FOR ALL OR ANY EXCLUSIVELY CHARITABLE PURPOSE OR PURPOSES (ACCORDING TO THE LAWS OF ENGLAND) AS FALL WITHIN THE SI OBJECTS ('THE CHARITABLE OBJECTS') AND NOT THE WIDER SI OBJECTS THEMSELVES.

The charity’s charitable objects and area of benefit, quoted from its governing document as held on the Charity Commission register.

Causes: Education/training · The Advancement Of Health Or Saving Of Lives · Disability · The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty · Overseas Aid/famine Relief · Environment/conservation/heritage · website · Get email alerts

Registered contact address: East Cambridgeshire, East of England, England (from the postcode on the register)

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the Charity held total net assets of £220,137 at the end of the year, with unrestricted funds of £113,081. The Trustees report that no formal reserves policy has been established because the Charity has little to no fixed overheads and pays out grants only from funds received. The independent examiner confirmed that no material matters came to their attention during the examination of the financial statements.

Automated summary of the FY2025 accounts; the evidenced findings below carry the verbatim passages.

What the accounts disclose

Accounts independently examined (not a full audit). Discloses 5 of 6 completeness components.

Policies the charity declares

In its annual return the charity told the Commission that it has the policies listed below. This is self-declared: it is not verified by the Commission or by this site, and it is not evidence of how a policy works in practice.

• Bullying and harassment policy and procedures
• Complaints policy and procedures
• Conflicting interests
• Financial reserves policy and procedures
• Internal charity financial controls policy and procedures
• Internal risk management policy and procedures
• Investing charity funds policy and procedures
• Investment
• Risk management
• Safeguarding policy and procedures
• Safeguarding vulnerable beneficiaries
• Serious incident reporting policy and procedures
• Social media policy and procedures
• Trustee conflicts of interest policy and procedures
• Volunteer management

From the charity’s annual return (Part A, self-declared)

Answers and figures the charity gave in Part A of its annual return to the Charity Commission. They are self-declared: not verified by the Commission or by this site. Only positive answers and figures are listed; items not listed are simply not shown.

Source: this charity’s annual returns on the Charity Commission register.

Trustees · trustee networks

• SI (Soroptimist International) Ltd

Trustee list from the Charity Commission register (current, not historical).

Operates in: Albania · Anguilla · Argentina · Armenia · Australia · Bangladesh · Barbados · Belgium · Benin · Bolivia · Brazil · Bulgaria

Income and spending

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Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with SOROPTIMIST INTERNATIONAL OF GREAT BRITAIN AND IRELAND BENEVOLENT FUND.

• SOROPTIMIST INTERNATIONAL OF GREAT BRITAIN AND IRELAND BENEVOLENT FUND income £29k
• SOROPTIMIST INTERNATIONAL GREAT BRITAIN AND IRELAND (SIGBI) LIMITED income £391k
• SOROPTIMIST INTERNATIONAL GREAT BRITAIN AND IRELAND - EMERGENCY RELIEF FUND income £9k
• INSPIRING GIRLS INTERNATIONAL LIMITED income £863k
• FRIENDS OF CHARITY INTERNATIONAL income £121k
• EDUCATIONAL OPPORTUNITY FOUNDATION income £639k

Side by side with its peers

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